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SPE Thermoforming Quarterly
Industry Takes on Thermoforming at NPE 2024 By Conor Carlin, Editor NPE returned to Orlando in May 2024 after a 6-year hiatus, so expectations were high leading up to the event. With over 50,000 attendees expected, this show was expected by many to be barometer for...
Training session boasts international attendees
WILLIAMSPORT — The polymer technology workforce recently received a boost, thanks to recent training hosted by the Plastics Innovation and Resource Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Hands-On Thermoforming Workshop covered the basics of thermoforming –...
OMV Technologies highlights sustainability efforts
Its use of Promix's Microcell foaming technology enables lightweighting of extruded sheet for thermoforming. By Bruce Geiselman OMV Technologies, which designs and builds thermoforming machines, molds and extrusion in-line systems for rigid food packaging, highlighted...
Thermoforming Q&A with Illig Maschinenbau, OMV Technologies and WM Thermoforming Machines
Thermoformed packaging is said to have benefitted from the Covid-19 pandemic with soaring demand globally, but why is that? Steven Pacitti talks to Brooke Maltun and Mark Strachan from OMV Technologies in the USA, Steffen Scheuermann from Illig in Germany, and...
OMV Technologies Gets New CEO
Kooper brings 33 years of experience in the industrial and consumer packaging industries to OMV--the closed-loop, turnkey, inline extrusion, thermoforming and tooling systems manufacturer. Gary P. Kooper has been named the new CEO of OMV Technologies, a leading...
Rising Stars 2022: Brooke Maltun
Brooke Maltun, 34, President, OMV Technologies LLC. Brooke Maltun, 34 President, OMV Technologies LLC Brooke Maltun is a second-generation thermoformer and entrepreneur living in Los Angeles. In 1993, her father purchased Harbor City, Calif.-based thermoformed...
Florida-based MalStra acquires Italy’s OMV Machinery
The RM77 — as in revolving mold — is an automatic, in-mold trimming thermoforming machine with fast and high outputs for products like polypropylene cups. A patented rotating mold system — as opposed to a tilting system -- gives the machine dubbed “Revolver” an edge...
New owners highlight the possible at OMV
From left: OMV co-owners Brooke Maltun, president; Mark Strachan, CEO; and Matthew Banach, vice president of sales and marketing Florida-based MalStra LLC acquired OMV Technologies in in November 2021. Since then, OMV's headquarters moved to Florida, and manufacturing...
Thermoforming automation reaches for more
As thermoformers look for faster production rates with higher capacities while also grappling with labour shortages, automation has become a necessity. And virtually all automation suppliers now have enhanced equipment offerings. For manufacturers, the COVID-19...
Stacking (and stocking) up!
The thermoforming sector seems to have been riding on the crest of a wave in recent times. Steven Pacitti finds out why The days of the pandemic were undeniably challenging and saddening for humanity as a whole. At the same time, there is no denying that the packaging...